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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">alright, settle down everyone. theres alot of sharp folks in the military and the defense industry, I know alot of them. I also know alot of people whom disparage their co-workers, and it applies to EVERY industry, as Narrew describes above.

Just like almost every office worker can draw similarities between their place of work, and a Dilbert comic strip.

no one is trying to take a crap on our armed forces, but at the same time im not going to qualify every wisecrack with two pages of flowery exceptions, just to make sure your feelings dont get bruised. take a deep breath, and exhale. Repeat.

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Yes, I would expect you to side with the lady friend. I read the comment to be more generalized when here you were being specific, my fault indeed.

They do mostly end poorly (from my exposure at having seen many first hand) but I think that has more to do with age than profession.

I hope they Article 15 the SOB, he was married for heavens sake. If she meant to carry on with him or not is not so much the point, that said the military is VERY strict about that and related topics. He is probably sitting at home after a dishonorable discharge cursing your name.

That Last bit was only pointed at the moron aspect; it was intended to convey the message that in referring to the military it is no laughing matter becouse you referring to men and women, not faceless entities. But I respect the request of Atrocities so bygones-be-bygones.

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Does any one remember what this thread was originally about? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

Re: OT: Galactic sterilisation
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was about me telling something aboug gamma ray explosion and then some guy pointed out something about Hitler/Saddam and then I pointed out something abut Bush/Blair and then all hell broke loose. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif First about the EU/US dogfight and then about the US military.


P.S.: Love your shipsets Atrocities, using the ST: TNG now. Must have been quite an effort to put it all together.

P.P.S: Puke... we're talking about 2 different things. I'm talking about the current state of affairs and my (and the majority of the world's) oppinion on it AND you're (as I understand) talking about some phylosophical debate about there being no right and wrong... I don't care anymore http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I pointed our my position very clearly and so did you. So lets leve it at that and let history make its judgments.

[ January 08, 2004, 19:32: Message edited by: JurijD ]

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Thanks.

I am glad that you are enjoying the ship sets. There have been so many varations of them over the Last three years, check that four years now, that the effort behind them has long since pasted into ledgend. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Seriously, most of the sets were a lot of fun developing. The federation sets all use models from Starfleet Command I, II, and Orion Pirates.

The Klingons / Romulans use some models from those games, BOTF, and a Klingon ship game that I cannot remember the name of.

I enjoy the TNG set too. I seldom if ever use it in any PBW games because there are so many others who want to play the Federation that I often opt to play another race. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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It was originally about advanced life and black holes; he wrapped up his opening statement by saying that we are pretty lucky here on Earth. But isn’t that the truth in general? I mean our position around the sun, the type of life and wonder of diversity we have, the move to tool use and development of intelligence, and what about Goober Grape? Aren’t we lucky to have that to eat on bread? I love that stuff, and so does my son. I mean for heavens sake he will sneak the jar into his room and eat it straight from the bottle. Then he comes to me with it smeared on his face and asks for water because he’s thirsty. No doubt you are I would be too if I had just eaten half a freaking bottle in under 2.5 seconds. Give it a rest guy; I don’t want him to grow up with his mouth glued shut from peanut butter. What a mad man I have!

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Wow... I see statements of making fun of the military itself have (as probably should have been expected) been grossly twisted into making fun of specific people that died. So sad that you guys had to read what you wanted to read, not what was said. Making fun of the military does not constitute making fun of the soldiers that died in ANY way, shape, or form. "The military" IS an abstract entity, divorced from the soldiers in it. Mocking the military itself is ENTIRELY different than mocking the men and women themselves of the armed forces.

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whoops, got that Last post in before reading the wind-down. ignore me, as usual.

so, if we wanted a burst of radiation to sterilize the planet, am i correct that we could only expect to zap one hemisphere of it? it wouldnt be all that hard to repopulate and keep the species going if we had a whole half the world to work with. Maybe JurijD would get lucky, and only the americas would be wiped out. Admittedly, that wouold not bode well for our nothern and southern neighbors, but acceptable losses, and all that.

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yes we would lose a few hockey teams.

But we would win the cup every year.

But I would not be able to travel to small american towns all over...

But the cup would be back here.

Then I guess Canadians would be considered bad. But I would rather see a donut shop all over the world than the golden arches http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

And no more of that ice tea problem.

Cause ice tea would be what it is ice tea... no strange brew tea and let it get cold to drink...

I think mostly i would miss the small brew pubs and micro brewerys.

And the fact I never saw California.

Oh and no SEV...


AT That is a good ship set.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Huh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif What do you call iced tea?